[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

An educated guess is still technically a guess

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You've basically just re-defined intelligence as selfishness.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

It's paid, but (at least in my case) doesn't pay that much. It's barely enough to live off of if you're really careful with your money. I wouldn't have been able to do it without accumulating significant savings beforehand.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Anything else it's comparable with a random person on the street.

I'd say we're actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

All the AI companies would beg to differ

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

This triggered my shitpost Spidey senses. But what do I know. I never studied in the US.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

I've been told the French is rather mediocre compared to the English.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Pebble seems to be headed in a good direction ever since it got bought back by the original founder.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago

So envious of all of you that have cheap farmer's markets. Where I am, my choices are

  • Grocery store: cheap, highly variable quality, support the conglomerates
  • Farmer's market: expensive, probably higher quality, support local farmers

They're so much fun to walk through though. If only I could actually afford to buy from them.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I can understand objecting to it if it's used as training data, but it sounds like this is basically just "indexing" the contents of the book, similar to how a search engine works.

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submitted 2 months ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Say it's 25C outside and 30C indoors. I want to bring the indoor temp down to 25C, but opening all the windows barely makes a dent. Does it make sense to have the AC turned on and set to 25C while I have the windows open? Or should I be closing them anyway?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

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submitted 10 months ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

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submitted 1 year ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/fitness@lemmy.world

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 155 points 1 year ago

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

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I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803

I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.

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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/dadsplain@lemmy.ca

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

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Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy411@lemmy.ca

Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?

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